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The cardiac causes of seizures
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The North West Blackouts Group, Paul Cooper°*, Amir Zaidi, Alan Fitchet, Peter Clough*, Adam P. Fitzpatrick.
Manchester Heart Centre, The Royal Infirmary, Manchester, °David Lewis Centre for Epilepsy, Warford, *Department of Neurology, Centre for Clinical Neurosciences, Hope Hospital, Salford, UK
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